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Social Virtue Epistemology

Author : Mark Alfano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000607305
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Social Virtue Epistemology written by Mark Alfano and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 19 chapters, all appearing in print here for the first time and written by an international team of established and emerging scholars, explores the place of intellectual virtues and vices in a social world. Relevant virtues include open-mindedness, curiosity, intellectual courage, diligence in inquiry, and the like. Relevant vices include dogmatism, need for immediate certainty, and gullibility and the like. The chapters are divided into four key sections: Foundational Issues; Individual Virtues; Collective Virtues; and Methods and Measurements. And the chapters explore the most salient questions in this areas of research, including: How are individual intellectual virtues and vices affected by their social contexts? Does being in touch with other open-minded people make us more open-minded? Conversely, does connection to other dogmatic people make us more dogmatic? Can groups possess virtues and vices distinct from those of their members? For instance, could a group of dogmatic individuals operate in an open-minded way despite the vices of its members? Each chapter receives commentary from two other authors in the volume, and each original author then replies to these commentaries. Together, the authors form part of a collective conversation about how we can know about what we know. In so doing, they not only theorize but enact social virtue epistemology.

Connecting Virtues: Advances in Ethics, Epistemology, and Political Philosophy

Author : Michel Croce
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119525748
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis Connecting Virtues: Advances in Ethics, Epistemology, and Political Philosophy by : Michel Croce

Download or read book Connecting Virtues: Advances in Ethics, Epistemology, and Political Philosophy written by Michel Croce and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecting Virtues examines the significant advances within the fast-growing field of virtue theory and shows how research has contributed to the current debates in moral philosophy, epistemology, and political philosophy. Includes groundbreaking chapters offering cutting-edge research on the topic of the virtues Provides insights into the application of the topic of virtue, such as the role of intellectual virtues, virtuous dispositions, and the value of some neglected virtues for political philosophy Examines the relevance of the virtues in the current debates in social epistemology, the epistemology of education, and civic education Features work from world-leading and internationally recognized philosophers working on the virtues today

The Routledge Handbook of Virtue Epistemology

Author : Heather Battaly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317495284
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Virtue Epistemology written by Heather Battaly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is an epistemic virtue? Are epistemic virtues reliable? Are they motivated by a love of truth? Do epistemic virtues produce knowledge and understanding? How can we develop epistemic virtues? The Routledge Handbook of Virtue Epistemology answers all of these questions. This landmark volume provides a pluralistic and comprehensive picture of the field of virtue epistemology. It is the first large-scale volume of its kind on the topic. Composed of 41 chapters, all published here for the first time, it breaks new ground in four areas. It articulates the structure and features of epistemic virtues. It provides in-depth analyses of 10 individual epistemic virtues. It examines the connections between epistemic virtue, knowledge, and understanding. It applies virtue epistemology, and explores its impact on related fields. The contributing authors are pioneers in the study of epistemic virtue. This volume is an outstanding resource for students and scholars in philosophy, as well as researchers in intersecting fields, including education, psychology, political science, and women’s studies.?

The Social Contexts of Intellectual Virtue

Author : Adam Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315302578
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Social Contexts of Intellectual Virtue written by Adam Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconceives virtue epistemology in light of the conviction that we are essentially social creatures. Virtue is normally thought of as something that allows individuals to accomplish things on their own. Although contemporary ethics is increasingly making room for an inherently social dimension in moral agency, intellectual virtues continue to be seen in terms of the computing potential of a brain taken by itself. Thinking in these terms, however, seriously misconstrues the way in which our individual flourishing hinges on our collective flourishing. Green’s account of virtue epistemology is based on the extended credit view, which conceives of knowledge as an achievement and broadens that focus to include team achievements in addition to individual ones. He argues that this view does a better job than alternatives of answering the many conceptual and empirical challenges for virtue epistemology that have been based on cases of testimony. The view also allows for a nuanced interaction with situationist psychology, dual processing models in cognitive science, and the extended mind literature in philosophy of mind. This framework provides a useful conceptual bridge between individual and group epistemology, and it has novel applications to the epistemology of disagreement, prejudice, and authority.

Vice Epistemology

Author : Ian James Kidd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351380869
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Vice Epistemology written by Ian James Kidd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most problematic human behaviors involve vices of the mind such as arrogance, closed-mindedness, dogmatism, gullibility, and intellectual cowardice, as well as wishful or conspiratorial thinking. What sorts of things are epistemic vices? How do we detect and mitigate them? How and why do these vices prevent us from acquiring knowledge, and what is their role in sustaining patterns of ignorance? What is their relation to implicit or unconscious bias? How do epistemic vices and systems of social oppression relate to one another? Do we unwittingly absorb such traits from the process of socialization and communities around us? Are epistemic vices traits for which we can blamed? Can there be institutional and collective epistemic vices? This book seeks to answer these important questions about the vices of the mind and their roles in our social and epistemic lives, and is the first collection of its kind. Organized into three parts, chapters by outstanding scholars explore the nature of epistemic vices, specific examples of these vices, and case studies in applied vice epistemology, including education and politics. Alongside these foundational questions, the volume offers sophisticated accounts of vices both new and familiar. These include epistemic arrogance and servility, epistemic injustice, epistemic snobbishness, conspiratorial thinking, procrastination, and forms of closed-mindedness. Vice Epistemology is essential reading for students of ethics, epistemology, and virtue theory, and various areas of applied, feminist, and social philosophy. It will also be of interest to practitioners, scholars, and activists in politics, law, and education.

Education and the Growth of Knowledge

Author : Ben Kotzee
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118721292
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Education and the Growth of Knowledge written by Ben Kotzee and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education and the Growth of Knowledge is a collection of original contributions from a group of eminent philosophers and philosophers of education, who sketch the implications of advances in contemporary epistemology for education. New papers on education and social and virtue epistemology contributed by a range of eminent philosophers and philosophers of education Reconceives epistemology in the light of notions from social and virtue epistemology Demonstrates that a reconsideration of epistemology in the light of ideas from social and virtue epistemology will in turn re-invigorate the links between epistemology and education

Collective Epistemology

Author : Hans Bernhard Schmid
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110322587
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Collective Epistemology written by Hans Bernhard Schmid and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: „We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...” This collection of essays addresses a philosophical problem raised by the first clause of these famous words. Does each signatory of the Declaration of Independence hold these truths individually, do they share some kind of a common attitude, or is there a single subject over and above the heads of its individual members that possesses a belief? “Collective Epistemology” is a name for the view that cognitive attitudes can be attributed to groups in a non-summative sense. The aim of this volume is to examine this claim, and to place it in the wider context of recent epistemological debates about the role of sociality in knowledge acquisition, in virtue and social epistemology, and in philosophy and sociology of science.

Virtue Epistemology: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Author : Ernest Sosa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199810737
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis Virtue Epistemology: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by : Ernest Sosa

Download or read book Virtue Epistemology: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide written by Ernest Sosa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study Philosophy. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibligraphies.com.

Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media

Author : Nancy E. Snow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000406113
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media written by Nancy E. Snow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses current threats to citizenship and democratic values posed by the spread of post-truth communication. The contributors apply research on moral, civic, and epistemic virtues to issues involving post-truth culture. The spread of post-truth communication affects ordinary citizens’ commitment to truth and attitudes toward information sources, thereby threatening the promotion of democratic ideals in public debate. The chapters in this volume investigate the importance of helping citizens improve the quality of their online agency and raise awareness of the risks social media poses to democratic values. This book moves from two initial chapters that provide historical background and overview of the present post-truth malaise, through a series of chapters that feature mainly diagnostic accounts of the epistemic and ethical issues we face, to the complexities of virtue-theoretic analyses of specific virtues and vices. Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in virtue ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, and media studies.

Epistemic Situationism

Author : Abrol Fairweather
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191512524
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Situationism written by Abrol Fairweather and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first sustained examination of epistemic situationism: the clash between virtue epistemology and the situationist hypothesis inspired by research in empirical psychology. Situationism began as a challenge to the psychology of character traits, targeting ethical theories that presuppose a trait psychology. Psychological research suggests that (often trivial) environmental variables have greater explanatory power than character traits. Epistemology pursues questions about the nature of knowledge. While there are internal differences within virtue epistemology between responsibilists and reliabilists, they all analyze knowledge in terms of epistemic virtues and vices. However, despite promising normative results, virtue epistemology appears to assume the same character-based psychology as virtue ethics does. Until recently, virtue epistemology and situationism were separate literatures, but philosophers have begun to examine the apparent incompatibility between situationist psychology and virtue epistemology. Much of the psychological research that raises questions about the empirical adequacy of the moral psychology of virtue ethics also appears to raise doubts about the empirical adequacy of the epistemic psychology assumed by virtue epistemology. Responsibilist virtue epistemology appears particularly vulnerable because epistemic virtues like open mindedness, conscientiousness and intellectual courage are traits of intellectual character, but reliabilist virtue epistemology appeals to the psychology of cognitive skills, abilities, and competences that may be similarly vulnerable. The essays in this volume take up this new problem of epistemic situationism from multiple points of view - some sceptical or revisionary, others conservative.

Virtue Epistemology Naturalized

Author : Abrol Fairweather
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319046721
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Virtue Epistemology Naturalized written by Abrol Fairweather and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents four bridges connecting work in virtue epistemology and work in philosophy of science (broadly construed) that may serve as catalysts for the further development of naturalized virtue epistemology. These bridges are: empirically informed theories of epistemic virtue; virtue theoretic solutions to under determination; epistemic virtues in the history of science; and the value of understanding. Virtue epistemology has opened many new areas of inquiry in contemporary epistemology including: epistemic agency, the role of motivations and emotions in epistemology, the nature of abilities, skills and competences, wisdom and curiosity. Value driven epistemic inquiry has become quite complex and there is a need for a responsible and rigorous process of constructing naturalized theories of epistemic virtue. This volume makes the involvement of the sciences more explicit and looks at the empirical aspect of virtue epistemology. Concerns about virtue epistemology are considered in the essays contained here, including the question: can any virtue epistemology meet both the normativity constraint and the empirical constraint? The volume suggests that these worries should not be seen as impediments but rather as useful constraints and desiderata to guide the construction of naturalized theories of epistemic virtue.

Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic

Author : Heather Battaly
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444351931
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic written by Heather Battaly and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic presents a series of essays by leading ethicists and epistemologists who offer the latest thinking on the moral and intellectual virtues and vices, the structure of virtue theory, and the connections between virtue and emotion. Cuts across two fields of philosophical inquiry by featuring a dual focus on ethics and epistemology Features cutting-edge work on the moral and intellectual virtues and vices, the structure of virtue theory, and the connections between virtue and emotion Presents a radical new moral theory that makes exemplars the foundation of ethics; and new theories of epistemic vices such as epistemic malevolence and epistemic self-indulgence Represents one of the few collections to address both the moral virtues and the epistemic virtues Explores a new approach in epistemology - virtue epistemology - which emphasizes the importance of intellectual character traits

Knowledge, Virtue, and Action

Author : Tim Henning
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136227237
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Virtue, and Action written by Tim Henning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together recent work by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on the topic of virtue epistemology. The prospects of virtue-theoretic analyses of knowledge depend crucially on our ability to give some independent account of what epistemic virtues are and what they are for. The contributions here ask how epistemic virtues matter apart from any narrow concern with defining knowledge; they show how epistemic virtues figure in accounts of various aspects of our lives, with a special emphasis on our practical lives. In essence, the essays here put epistemic virtues to work.

Intellectual Agency and Virtue Epistemology: A Montessori Perspective

Author : Patrick Frierson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135001883X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Agency and Virtue Epistemology: A Montessori Perspective written by Patrick Frierson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the work of Maria Montessori and contemporary virtue epistemologists such as Linda Zagzebski and Jason Baehr, Intellectual Agency and Virtue Epistemology presents a new interpretation of the nature of intellectual agency and its associated virtues. Focusing on Montessori's interpretation of specific virtues including sensory attentiveness, intellectual love and intellectual humility, it discusses why these are virtues, why one can be held responsible for them, and how they relate to each other. Moreover, it considers pedagogical implications of considering these capacities to be virtues. Intellectual Agency and Virtue Epistemology not only reveals the value of seeing Montessori as a virtue epistemologist, it encourages educationalists to take seriously the cultivation of intellectual virtues as an important part of the education of children.

Intellectual Virtues and Education

Author : Jason Baehr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317500059
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Virtues and Education written by Jason Baehr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its focus on intellectual virtues and their role in the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and related epistemic goods, virtue epistemology provides a rich set of tools for educational theory and practice. In particular, characteristics under the rubric of "responsibilist" virtue epistemology, like curiosity, open-mindedness, attentiveness, intellectual courage, and intellectual tenacity, can help educators and students define and attain certain worthy but nebulous educational goals like a love of learning, lifelong learning, and critical thinking. This volume is devoted to exploring the intersection between virtue epistemology and education. It assembles leading virtue epistemologists and philosophers of education to address such questions as: Which virtues are most essential to education? How exactly should these virtues be understood? How is the goal of intellectual character growth related to other educational goals, for example, to critical thinking and knowledge-acquisition? What are the "best practices" for achieving this goal? Can growth in intellectual virtues be measured? The chapters are a prime example of "applied epistemology" and promise to be a seminal contribution to an area of research that is rapidly gaining attention within epistemology and beyond.

Intellectual Virtues

Author : Robert C. Roberts
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191608645
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Virtues written by Robert C. Roberts and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the ferment of recent debates about the intellectual virtues, Roberts and Wood have developed an approach they call 'regulative epistemology'. This is partly a return to classical and medieval traditions, partly in the spirit of Locke's and Descartes's concern for intellectual formation, partly an exploration of connections between epistemology and ethics, and partly an approach that has never been tried before. Standing on the shoulders of recent epistemologists - including William Alston, Alvin Plantinga, Ernest Sosa, and Linda Zagzebski - Roberts and Wood pursue epistemological questions by looking closely and deeply at particular traits of intellectual character such as love of knowledge, intellectual autonomy, intellectual generosity, and intellectual humility. Central to their vision is an account of intellectual goods that includes not just knowledge as properly grounded belief, but understanding and personal acquaintance, acquired and shared through the many social practices of actual intellectual life. This approach to intellectual virtue infuses the discipline of epistemology with new life, and makes it interesting to people outside the circle of professional epistemologists. It is epistemology for the whole intellectual community, as Roberts and Wood carefully sketch the ways in which virtues that would have been categorized earlier as moral make for agents who can better acquire, refine, and communicate important kinds of knowledge.

Virtue Epistemology and the Analysis of Knowledge

Author : Ian Church
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350258393
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Virtue Epistemology and the Analysis of Knowledge written by Ian Church and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book centers on two dominant trends within contemporary epistemology: first, the dissatisfaction with the project of analyzing knowledge in terms of necessary and jointly sufficient conditions and, second, the surging popularity of virtue-theoretic approaches to knowledge. Church argues that the Gettier Problem, the primary reason for abandoning the reductive analysis project, cannot viably be solved, and that prominent approaches to virtue epistemology fail to solve the Gettier Problem precisely along the lines his diagnosis predicts. Such an outcome motivates Church to explore a better way forward: non-reductive virtue epistemology. In so doing, he makes room for virtue epistemologies that are not only able to endure what he sees as inevitable developments in 21st-century epistemology, but also able to contribute positively to debates and discussions across the discipline and beyond.